Are there WIndows "7" related/specialized newsgroups?

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I have some questions about Windows 7.
Unfortuantely I found no specialized Usenet newsgroups.
I expected soemthing like

microsoft.public.windows7.help_and_support

But I did not found them.

Are they already setup?

Karl
 
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I have some questions about Windows 7.
Unfortuantely I found no specialized Usenet newsgroups.
I expected soemthing like

microsoft.public.windows7.help_and_support

But I did not found them.

Are they already setup?
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Microsoft has apparently decided to abandon USENET and force all contact
through their various Web sites.
 
I have some questions about Windows 7.
Unfortuantely I found no specialized Usenet newsgroups.
I expected soemthing like

microsoft.public.windows7.help_and_support

But I did not found them.

Are they already setup?

Karl
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Not on the Microsoft servers, they don't plan to carry Windows7 groups.
They seem to be shifting support to a web-based forum.However, some
newsservers have a Windows 7 newsgroup called alt.windows7.general. Most
of the drones here will just direct you to the forums as I suspect MS
wants to get away from all NNTP newsgroups as soon as possible. Its only
a matter of time till all these groups are discontinued.
 
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Microsoft has apparently decided to abandon USENET and force all contact
through their various Web sites.
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I`ve just started using alt.windows7.general through eternal-september
and agent .
 
Microsoft has apparently decided to abandon USENET and
force all contact through their various Web sites.
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Microsoft and Google are not "abandoning" Usenet, they are doing
their best to destroy it.
 
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Microsoft and Google are not "abandoning" Usenet, they are doing
their best to destroy it.
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Well, maybe if Microsoft does abandon USENET (do their current email
clients even pretend to support access to news servers?) their efforts
will wane.
 
(e-mail address removed) (Karl Mondale) écrivait @newsspool4.arcor-online.net:
I have some questions about Windows 7.
Unfortuantely I found no specialized Usenet newsgroups.
I expected soemthing like

microsoft.public.windows7.help_and_support

But I did not found them.

Are they already setup?

Karl
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Set up a new "news account" in your news reader, use "news.aioe.org"
(without the quotes) as the server name (it's free) and the group is:

alt.windows7.general

there's a lot of pollution about linux on that group but it's sometimes
entertaining, but there's also good informations.

HTH
 
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